Law Society Gazette 25 July 2016

Truss takes the mantle

After a week of debate about the suitability of her appointment, Liz Truss formally took office as lord chancellor at the Royal Courts of Justice last Thursday. Truss is the third non-lawyer and first woman to be appointed lord chancellor in modern times. 

27 July 2006

Ministers under fire over ABSs

The government is moving too quickly in introducing alternative business structures (ABSs) to deliver legal services, MPs and peers have warned. A report from the joint parliamentary committee scrutinising the draft Legal Services Bill also called for amendments to secure the profession’s independence, seeking to curb the government’s role in appointing members of the proposed oversight regulator, the Legal Services Board.

24 July 1996

PI lawyers attack Woolf reforms

Personal injury lawyers have launched a stinging pre-emptive attack on Lord Woolf’s final proposals to reform civil justice. Dubbing the Woolf report ‘Denial of access to justice’, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers said the report would give the government an opportunity to deny the legal system the resources it needs to enable people to pursue their rights through the courts.  

August 1966

Autobiography of D.N. Pritt, Vol 2

He is a brave and chivalrous champion of the underdog – a sort of amalgam of Don Quixote, Voltaire and Jonathan Swift. But even the underdog is not always right. 

August 1926

Legal aid in the High Court

On April 6th, 1926, there came into operation a new system of legal aid for poor persons who desire to take or defend legal proceedings in the High Court. For this purpose, a person is regarded as ‘poor’ whose means fall within the limits described in the new Rule 23 of Order XIV; and in order to obtain the benefit of the system, he must have reasonable grounds for taking or defending the proceedings.

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